Intelectuais da modernização: Biografia dos 26 signatários do manifesto dos pioneiros da educação nova de 1932

This book brings a collection of biographical stories of Brazilian intellectuals who signed the New Education Pioneers Manifest, from 1932, unveiling the social, political and cultural nexuses of their ideas and the institutional environments that received and circulated their propositions. The purpose was to gather, in a single compendium, biographical stories of all the Manifest signatories, abandoning the historiographical tradition that privileges some of these intellectuals and leaves a large part of them to the sidelines of written history. The fact that the intellectuals biographed here do not have a homogeneous political position, that their components belong to different country regions, have a diverse academic background and exercise different professional activities combined with the teaching function, allowed to add, to the already known, new information about one of the most important movements for the Brazilian public school qualification, named by its proponents as “Movement for the New School”. In view of the identity diversity from the intellectuals group who signed the New Education Pioneers Manifest, there is one aspect that unifies its components and led to the writing of the chapters that compose this collection: all the signatories to the Manifest, from 1932, were intellectuals who were present in the educational field, defending the modernization of the school and the Brazilian society.